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    Nov 9, 2020
    Dissents in the Russian Constitutional Court are prohibited from being published
  • Jan 15, 2020
    A full collection of case law of the Civil Cassation Department of the Ruling Senate
    In free access for the first time
  • Apr 16, 2017
    Russian Law Journal
    Russian court practice in English
  • Interviews
    Jul 25, 2014
    Sergey Sarbash. "The interpretation of law by highest courts should not be feared of" // zakon.ru. 25.07.2014
    “Theory knows such kind of interpretation as an interpretation contra legem, when a court interprets a law contrary the latter’s literal meaning” 
  • Jun 17, 2014
    "Ideological version of the reasons for judicial reform from Justice Gadzhiev" // pravo.ru. 18.06.2014.
    “Let us say that we have a super-precedential law. I mean certain “traditions” in judges’ behaviour, certain attitude towards the authority of the superior court”. (Full version)
  • May 22, 2014
    Valery Zorkin. The economy and law - a new context // Rossiyskaya Gazeta. 22.05.2014
    “It is impossible not to touch upon recently observed attempts of a significant part of legal community to introduce into Russian law-creation practice the elements of the Anglo-Saxon law of precedent”
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    Justice of the Constitutional Court since 1991, Chairman in 1991-1993 and since 2003 until present
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    Justice of the Constitutional Court since 2008

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Judicial politics
  • 21.06.2013 | 19:00
    A speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum
    “I propose to merge the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the Supreme Commercial Court, for which it will be necessary to make amendments to the Constitution of Russia”
  • 18.05.2013 | 14:00
    An article by Chairman of the Supreme Commercial Court Anton Ivanov 
    "The legal positions formulated by the Presidium and Plenary Session of the Supreme Commercial Court, - they are not only a guidance how to act, but also drafts for future court decisions"
  • 6.02.2012 | 14:00
    An article by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
    “А certain element of “the law of precedent” will serve as a factor of incessant improvement of court”
  • 29.04.2011 | 14:00
    An opinion of Russian President Dmitrii Medvedev 
    "A statute still must still undergo an interpretation in the heads of judges, whereas a decree of the Plenary Session [of a higher court] operates immediately"
  • 4.12.2008 | 15:55
    Anton Ivanov. Доклад Председателя Высшего Арбитражного Суда РФ А.А. Иванова на VII Всероссийском Съезде судей // ЭЖ-Юрист. 04.12.2008
    "The most important thing - it is necessary to recognise the decisions of courts of last resort as judicial precedents”
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